Magruder had retaken Galveston with a loss of twenty-six killed and 117 wounded. Union losses included the captured infantry and the Harriet Lane, about 150 casualties on the naval ships, as well as the destruction of the Westfield. The port remained under Confederate control for the rest of the war.
When balance of power exist between two nations, all the countries that are involved in a conflict would be fully aware that each of them had the capability to create massive destruction toward one another.
Because of this awareness, both parties would become hesitant in making initiation to start a war and might choose diplomatic method to solve their difference.
The populist and Bryan were for free silver while fighting in contradiction of the gold standard which believed as unfair since it was based on a 16-1 ratio in worth. The republicans and gold democrats were his opposing forces. McKinley would win the election of 1896 over Bryan and he ran resilient in were those states that silver was bountifully mined and also the deep south because of his democratic ideals and his fundamentalism in faith.
